It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

 

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Our street is full of Christmas lights and decorations. We've put our lights at the windows and a colourful Christmas wreath. 

I tell you this, I ceased to believe in Father Christmas, or Santa, years ago. As a child I asked for a live unicorn as a present. I didn't get it. I was told Santa could not bring him down the chimney. So I ceased to believe.

Until the other day. I got home from work late and as I drove into our drive I saw Santa leaving our house in a hurry from the back door. He jumped over a fence and into his car which drove off at speed. No doubt he's delivering our presents early this year!

I wonder. What's the difference between thinking and meditating? I was at a relaxation class the other day and this woman with a deep boring voice tried to get us to relax by asking us to close our eyes, take slow deep breaths and so on and so forth ... I nearly fell asleep. I could hear her saying, "imagine you are lying under a tree in a beautiful green valley ... the sun is shining ... there is a slight breeze ... ... ... "

I imagined lying under a tree as she said, then a dog came and relieved itself! 

Talking of unicorns ... a friend of mine was a horse whisperer. He used to stand ten or fifteen horses side-by-side then whisper something in the first horse's ear. That horse would whisper it to the second one and all the way down the line. Until the last horse which would shrug its shoulders and say "Prrrfttt!!!" Not having understood a thing.  

You know those contraptions they point at you to check your temperature? I went to the supermarket and the assistant pointed it at me. It must have messed up my brain. I went in the shop for some groceries and got out with wines and chocolates.

Just a thought ... what if you went to church and the priest pointed the instrument at you. And he could tell all your sins. Would you go to church again?

But God can see all your sins. He does not need an instrument for that. Think about it!

Anyway ... not much else to say for the moment. So as I lean back on my chair and read what's on my computer monitor one more time ...

All I have to say is ... ... ... ... ...